The State vs. the Dead Body of George Fisher

Date: 
March 14, 1826

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

[upon their oaths] do say that the said George Fisher going into a certain River] called Broad River to fish traps for fish of his own will at a late hour of the night it happened that accidentally, casually, and misfortunate [he] was in the water of the said river then suffocated and drowned...and there instantly died

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Acting Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the bank of the Broad River

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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